August 4th, 2009
An Email Exchange. I think this guy is for real!
HIS EMAIL TO ME
On Aug 4, 2009, at 3:31 PM, GEORGE KWATAMA wrote:
From: The Manager, Credit and foreign Bills,
First National Bank
6th Floor, First Place
Cnr Simmonds & Pritchard Street,
Johannesburg, Gauteng
South Africa.
Dear Partner,
PLEASE TREAT AS VERY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT.
My name is George Kwatama, I am the manager of Credit and Foreign bills of FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our bank with account number 620 44 263 900 whose name is Chung Timothy (Mr.), an American citizen who died in a plane crash with the whole passengers onboard. And for your perusal you can view this website.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list.
Since the demise of this customer, I personally have watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$9.5M (Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which has been with our branch since the death of this customer.
The reason why I contacted you is that this morning, I got an information that the late customer (Mr. Chung Timothy’s) account will be closed and the funds in it will be confiscated by the bank if the customer next of kin does not come up to make claim for the funds. On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the
Next of Kin or Trustee as no one has come up as his next of kin. I do not want the fund to be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed fund or shared amongst the bank executives. So I have decided to contact you to see if we can do this transaction together, because I am an insider in the bank, I will give you all the information that might be needed by the bank. For your assistant I am willing to give you 30% of the total amount.
Upon the receipt of your response, I will send you by fax or e-mail an international bank transfer form , which you will complete, sign and send back to me in order to enable us start the processing of this claim. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for the smooth and easy transfer of this fund has been finalized, this transaction will be completed within 14 bank working days of receiving your response.
Please include your private contact details i.e. Your Full names and Contact address, your occupation, Age and Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication and filling of claims for the procurement of the necessary legal documents to back up our claims.
Anticipating your urgent response.
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Yours Sincerely,
George Kwatama
Manager Credit and Foreign Bills.
FNB South Africa.
TEL: +27-785-437-526
Email:georgekwatama2009@gmail.com
MY RESPONSE
Date: August 4, 2009 3:41:28 PM EDT
To: <georgekwatama2009@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PLEASE CAN WE PARTNER WITH UTMOST CONFIDENTIALITY AND TRUST ON THIS SUBJECT MATTER?
From: The Queen of Sheba, House of Parliament of the Land of Nee
Dear Partner,
My name is the Queen of Sheba. I am sorry to hear of your loss. I have a similar problem. My entire family was taken by aliens to the planet Groth, leaving me with $5 billion US. It’s all in cash and stuffed into the walls of my palace in Dogpatch, Idaho. I need someone of a trusting and slightly devious mind, someone like YOU, to help me. Please, can you come to my palace and rip out my walls and take my money to a bank in your country for safe keeping? I will gladly pay you $1 billion US for your most excellent services.
Please let me know. As you say, you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for the easy transfer of the funds from my walls to your bank account has been finalized. It will be a simple matter for you to either swallow the $5 billion US (contained in condoms of course) or deposit them in your anal canal for transfer through immigration.
This is most urgent and very distressing to me. I hope to hear from you soon!
Q.Sheba